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Ignoring the debate on Climate Change. General Confusion
From: ElDotardo
9/22/19
Back atcha' . . .
No place in debate for climate contrarians
Consensus enforcement is a potent new force in climate science where sceptical views increasingly are being silenced as a danger to public good.
Academic website The Conversation said this week it would ban comments from those it judged to be climate deniers and lock their accounts. The Conversation editor and executive director Misha Ketchell justified the ban on sceptical comments as a defence of “quiet Australians” who “understand and respect the science”.
The Conversation’s shift to a monologue reflects a deeper push that is raising alarm worldwide.
Contrarian scientist Jennifer Marohasy is among those listed on an international table of climate sceptics whose views should not be published. Marohasy says she is “proud to be listed as part of the resistance to what will one day be recognised as postmodern science”.
“I base my arguments and conclusions on evidence, and I apply logic. Of course, science is a method. Science is never ‘settled’,” she says. “Those who appeal primarily to the authority of science and the notion of a consensus are more interested in politics. Central to the scientific method is the hypothesis that can be tested: that can potentially be falsified. We must therefore always be open-minded, tolerant and ready to be proven wrong.”
Also on the list published by University of California, Merced, were international climate scientists Judith Curry, Richard Lindzen and Richard Tol, as well as academics Bjorn Lomborg and Australia’s Ian Plimer and Maurice Newman.
The list was drawn from research published in the journal Nature, which juxtaposed 386 prominent contrarians with 386 expert scientists by tracking their digital footprints across 200,000 research publications and 100,000 English-language digital and print media articles on climate change.
In a statement accompanying the article, lead author Alex Petersen says: “It’s time to stop giving these people (contrarians) visibility, which can be easily spun into false authority.
“By tracking the digital traces of specific individuals in vast troves of publicly available media data, we developed methods to hold people and media outlets accountable for their roles in the climate change denialism movement, which has given rise to climate change misinformation at scale.”
Curry says the paper “does substantial harm to climate science … There are a spectrum of perspectives, especially at the kn
From: katiek2
9/22/19
ElDotardo said:“This concern distorts what news-gathering is about,” CJR says. “Journalism has always been about righting wrongs, holding the powerful to account, calling out lies.”
No, journalism is all about factually reporting the news. News sources are not supposed to be activists, whether on the right or left.
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
9/23/19
ElDotardo said:Consensus enforcement is a potent new force in climate science where sceptical views increasingly are being silenced as a danger to public good.
You want balance in the Media?
Fine! Then one climate sceptic and two of their friends can have their say, then NINETY SEVEN scientists will provide studies, data, evidence and proof.
And you will have balance.
Of course, you may be denying the far simpler conclusion that the handful of GW holdouts are stepping back and accepting the overwhelming evidence.
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
9/23/19
Oh, and also - Godwin's Law demands I call you an idiot.
It's in the rules on the start page.
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
10/5/19
Floating boom designed to remove plastic from the oceans finally working in the Pacific
A floating boom designed to hoover up floating plastic in the Pacific Ocean is now working, after a host of setbacks.
Read more from ABC NewsFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
10/7/19
Pressure ramps up to pull CO2 from the sky with geoengineering tech
Experts say humanity has only 10 years to have large-scale carbon dioxide reduction schemes up and running if global warming is to be restrained to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Read more from ABC NewsFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
10/7/19
I will give up chocolate and potato chips... but not wine.
We have bad news about chocolate and wine - and it's not about your health
Producing food accounts for about 70 per cent of global freshwater use and the foods that use the most may surprise you.
Read more from ABC NewsFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
10/8/19
'Hedonistic sustainability': Denmark opens ski slope on top of incinerator
Copenhagen opens an artificial ski slope on the roof a huge incinerator that produces power by burning waste rather than fossil fuels - the first of its kind in the world.
Read more from ABC NewsFrom: BerrySteph
10/8/19
Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:Experts say humanity has only 10 years to have large-scale carbon dioxide reduction schemes up and running if global warming is to be restrained to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Stories like this only remind me that CCS has no chance.
If it was going to work, we'd have test-pools (or parts of the ocean depths) already choked with tons of locked-up carbon.
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
10/11/19
World-first Whale Heritage Site status awarded to Hervey Bay
As it hosts researchers and conservationists as part of the World Whale Conference, Hervey Bay's responsible and sustainable practices have been awarded.
Read more from ABC News